Acquisition Note:
This collection was donated to the University of Iowa Libraries by Ruth and
Elizabeth Thorne in 1964.

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Biographical
Note

Clifford
Thorne was an attorney, Iowa Railroad Commissioner, and a candidate for the
U.S. Senate in the early 1900s. He was also a member of the Farmers Grain
Marketing Committee of Seventeen.

Scope
and Content

The collection
includes correspondence, speeches, notes, and other materials relating to
legal disputes involving transportation of agricultural products. Two boxes
of correspondence involve the Committee of Seventeen, and 19 boxes of material
are devoted to the Wholesale Grocers Case.